Posted on 05/30/2005 6:18:38 AM PDT by Cornpone
Islamabad - A bride was gang-raped by her groom's friends on the first night of their marriage with her in-laws' consent in the southern part of Pakistan's Punjab province, a news report said on Monday.
The daily Times said Mujahid Hussain and his family allowed the bride, Kaneez Kubra, to be dishonoured in revenge for her brother's crime of having sexual relations with their daughter.
The bride's father, Ghulam Hussain, said four persons sexually assaulted his daughter in front of his son-in-law in his house in Punjab.
But her ordeal did not end there. Ghulam Hussain said on the following day she was taken to the residence of another friend and assaulted again.
"They are cruel. Hussain's grandfather and mother plainly told my daughter the wedding was just an excuse to (inflict) revenge on your brother for having sexual relations with our girl," he said.
Kubra was married to Mujahid last month on the directives of Panchayat (local jury) after it found her brother guilty of having illicit relations with Mujahid's sister.
In Pakistan's tribal and rural Punjab, women are married without their consent in compensation for the crime committed by their male family members to settle the dispute under "Swara" and "Vani" customs.
Human rights activists and Muslim scholars have opposed these customs and asked the government to take action against them.
"Islam provided for pardon, killing for killing or blood money as three options to settle murder," said Anis Ahmed, a scholar at the International Islamic University in Islamabad, adding "there is no other way and swara or any other such practice has no basis in Islam".
In 2002, eight young women, including two sisters aged two and four, escaped vani marriages near the Punjab city of Mianwali after the Supreme Court of Pakistan said the practice violated the law and norms of civilised society. - Sapa-dpa
Ping....
They're sick.
look at the last name and that's all I gotta say...
Hussain....
"Islam provided for pardon, killing for killing or blood money as three options to settle murder," said Anis Ahmed, a scholar at the International Islamic University in Islamabad, adding "there is no other way and swara or any other such practice has no basis in Islam".
I guess that is their version of the old fashion shivaree that they use to have in this country.
No. According to their "culture" this is ok and of course with the Liberals relativism about cultures we shouldn't criticize this. Moreover its probably America and Bush's fault somehow. Civilized society and the advances in the treatment of women and children is probably just part of the evil military industrial capitalist society.
I am waiting for the women's movement to rally and protest. Hmmmmm. Pretty quiet.
Think about this $#!t when some clown living in the West petitions the local government to allow Sharia Law to be used in the case of Muslim communities.
May the truth of God's love through Jesus Christ, spread throughout these dark lands.
There is, however, a penalty for raping a Muslim woman. You have to rape her again.
In the eyes of the multiculturalists, all cultures are to be respected and none is more civilized than the other, doncha know.
Those peaceful Muslims are at it again. And where are the American feminists now? Too busy crying that there aren't enough women's restrooms?
My God--how barbaric. It is truly the women and children who suffer the most in this world. If Pakistan is out ally, they need to get a handle on this!!
I think the Klingons were the first to do this.
Let's just be thankful they didn't mistreat the Koran. We all know that's over the line.
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